Monday, April 1, 2013

Sleep with me

I recently upgraded my home computer. My first new one in 5 years.
A basic breakdown of the build is
Asus P8Z77-V LX motherboard
Intel i5 3570k CPU (overclocked stably to 4.2GHz)
16GB Patriot RAM
Asus NVidia GT640
320GB SATA2 HDD (OS X)
2TB SATA6 HDD (Windows)
Corsair H50 water cooler
ThermalTake Commander MS-I Snow Edition

So the parts list is pretty basic, but I did have some issues that were unexpected. Like Windows would not sleep. I thought this was an issue I had created at first, so after getting everything setup, all the drivers installed, and the choice apps setup, I discovered the issue.
So I started over with re-installing Windows 7, and only the basic network drivers.
Same issue.
Ran the powercfg -energy and discovered that USB was preventing it from sleeping. The board has USB 2 and USB 3 onboard. So I installed the drivers from Asus, and still received the same issues from the powercfg report.
After a bit of poking around I discovered a fix that works.
Go into Control Panel > Power Options

I just search for power because it does not display correctly on a desktop.
and then Change power-saving settings > Balanced - Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings
This will pop up a new window, in the new window you want to look for and expand Sleep > Allow hybrid sleep > settings: Off

Hit apply, and you can now test it by going Start > Shutdown > Sleep
To verify open a command prompt as administrator and type powercfg -lastwake


Edit - 4/2/2013 - 12:00AM - Changed screen shot of power settings to my own screen shot

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